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Re:Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity ... by selkin on Sunday August 17, 2025 @12:30AM (#44928868)
It's not ease, it's efficiency: opening a locked car door is 1-2 minutes for an experienced person. Smashing the window is 2 seconds (though you also need some experience, as modern car side windows are also laminated).
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Re:Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity ... by userbinator on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:52PM (#44935257)
opening a locked car door is 1-2 minutes for an experienced person

Look up LockPickingLawyer on YouTube. Less than a minute with the right tool.

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Re:Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity ... by selkin on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:31PM (#44966710)
You don't need his level of skill to open a car door (you attack the latching mechanism, not the barrel itself).
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Re:Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity ... by DrewADesign on Friday August 22, 2025 @12:47AM (#44981077)
This video has some great footage of typical modern break-ins:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWWyG5ZwG8

The lockpicking lawyer’s skillset is not what’s required for that task. 30 seconds would be an eternity for a typical thief to just be able to open a car door. Most of these thieves take maybe 15 seconds from approach to escape. Stealing a whole car is a little bit different but nobody is going to sit there with their adrenaline pumping, wearing gloves, in the middle of the night trying to pick a car door lock that won’t even disable the alarm.

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